Posts Tagged ‘Nargis’
Dagmag dagmag doley naiyya
Posted on: October 14, 2011
“Jogan” is a movie which was made in 1950, but the person writing the story of this movie remained unnamed till 1999. It was in 1999 that Kidar Sharma, the director of the movie revealed that the story of “Jogan” (1950) was written by Chandulal Shah, but he declined to take the credit , and as a result, the credits of the movie carried a question mark instead of a name for half a century.
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Chanda khele aankh michauli
Posted on: October 7, 2011
“Jogan” (1950) was a Ranjit film company movie. It was directed by Kidar Sharma. The star cast of this movie had Dilip Kumar, Nargis,Pratima Devi, Purnima, Tabassum, Ramesh Thakur, Darpan, Rajendra Kumar, Manju, Anwari, Pesi Patel etc in it.
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“Pyaar Ki Baaten” (1951), which was a Nargis Arts production movie was directed by Akhtar Hussain. This movie, as the name of the production house suggests, was Nargis’ home production. Nargis was the female lead in this movie.
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“Anjuman” (1948) is a Nargis Arts Production. It was directed by Akhtar Hussain. The star cast of this movie included Jairaj, Nargis, Anwar Hussain, Neelam Kothari, Durga Khote, Chandabai etc.
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Mast chaandni jhoom rahi hai
Posted on: September 30, 2011
This is a song that many music buffs may already be familiar with, but I discovered this song only just now. and I loved this song. I am sure this song is already regarded as a lovely song by those who are already familiar with it.
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Idhar to aao mere sarkaar
Posted on: September 11, 2011
“Aadhi Raat” (1950) is a movie which was a Kuldip pictures production. It was directed by S K Ojha. This movie had Ashok Kumar and Nargis in lead roles. But if IMDB is to be believed then Cuckoo, Jeewan and Kuldip Kaur were the stars of this movie. 🙂
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“Aadhi Raat” (1950) is a movie starring Ashok Kumar and Nargis, no less ! I never knew that this duo ever worked in a movie together. Not only did they work together, they even lip synced a duet in the movie. And that too a duet sung by Lata and Rafi.
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Zameen se hamen aasmaan par
Posted on: August 23, 2011
“Adalat” (1958) was a movie starring Pradeep Kumar and Nargis. Quite an add couple, and the movie apparently failed at the box office. But what music this movie had ! Almost all the songs of this movie must be regarded as timeless classics.
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Aawaaraa ae mere dil
Posted on: August 1, 2011
In olden days, most Hindi movie going population used to be quite simple and naive. Give them the usual song and dance and they went back home happy. But if you gave them anthing different, they they would be out of their depth and fail to turn up to watch such movies. So I am not suprised that movies made on nonmainstream themes failed to attract audiences, even when they won critical acclaim and even Government awards.
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“Sheesha” (1952) is an obscure movie which was produced by Asian Picturs and it had actors like Sajjan,Nargis,Vimla,Amar,Achla Sachdev, Zebu, Anwari, Cuckoo, Majnu etc in it.
I have discussed three songs from this movie so far. Here is another song from this movi. This obscure song (at least for me) is sung by Lata. The song is written by an unknown lyricist called Umar Ansari. Music is composed by Ghulam Mohammad.
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